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BB Murder Case: LHC Accepts Cops Appeal for Hearing

Rawalpindi (Sep 11, 2017): A division bench of Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench on Monday issued notices to Federal Investigation Agency, Accountability Court and others on appeal filed by two senior police officers sentenced in Benazir murder case against their conviction.

A division bench of LHC Rawalpindi Bench headed by Justice Tariq Abbasi and Justice Habibullah Amir heard the appeal. The court while accepting the petition for regulating hearing issued notices to FIA, ATC and others respondents.

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Former CCPO Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and SSP Khurram Shehzad have moved to the high court against their prison sentences awarded by an anti-terrorism court in Benazir murder case.Raja Aneem Baber Advocate appeared before the court on behalf of the convicts.

The court while issuing notices also sought record of the case.

The two officers were imprisoned for 17 years each along with a fine of Rs 1 million in BB murder case.Saud Aziz, the former City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi, and SSP Khurram Shehzad, who was posted as SP Rawal Division in 2007 and is now heading Special Branch of Punjab Police, had filed the petition with LHC. The state and the then Inspector/SHO Police Station (PS) City Kashif Riaz Khan have been made respondents in the case.The anti terrorism court judge, Muhammad Asghar Khan, had convicted the two senior police officers for mishandling the crime scene where two-time premier BB was murdered by terrorists.

However, the court acquitted the five suspects allegedly linked with the banned outfit TTP for the lack of evidence and faulty investigation conducted by the prosecution.

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